Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday upheld a High Court order that granted six months bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act 1974 in Cumilla in 2015.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ”no order” on a government petition seeking stay on the High Court order.
The HC order of bail to Khaleda Zia in the arson case will remain in force following the Supreme Court order, Barrister A K M Ehsanur Rahman, a lawyer for Khaleda Zia told reporters.
He said Khaleda Zia cannot get release from jail following the SC order as she is arrested in few other cases.
On August 6, the High Court granted six months’ bail to Khaleda Zia in the arson case filed after eight people were killed and 25-26 others injured after a bus was torched in Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2 in 2015, during the anti-government agitation.
The next day two cases were filed with Chauddagram Police Station — one for murder and another for arson.
On July 25, a Cumilla court rejected Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in connection with the arson case.
Then Khaleda Zia filed a bail petition with the HC challenging the Cumilla court’s order.
Khaleda Zia landed in jail on February 8 this year after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday upheld a High Court order that granted six months bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act 1974 in Cumilla in 2015.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ”no order” on a government petition seeking stay on the High Court order.
The HC order of bail to Khaleda Zia in the arson case will remain in force following the Supreme Court order, Barrister A K M Ehsanur Rahman, a lawyer for Khaleda Zia told reporters.
He said Khaleda Zia cannot get release from jail following the SC order as she is arrested in few other cases.
On August 6, the High Court granted six months’ bail to Khaleda Zia in the arson case filed after eight people were killed and 25-26 others injured after a bus was torched in Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2 in 2015, during the anti-government agitation.
The next day two cases were filed with Chauddagram Police Station — one for murder and another for arson.
On July 25, a Cumilla court rejected Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in connection with the arson case.
Then Khaleda Zia filed a bail petition with the HC challenging the Cumilla court’s order.
Khaleda Zia landed in jail on February 8 this year after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
